Car-seat.



Patented Feb. 27, I900. H. MEIER.

CAR SEAT.

(Application filed Nov. 8, 1899.)

2 Shoots-Sheet l.

(No Model.)

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H. MElER.

CAR SEAT.

(Application filed Nov. 8, 1899.)

2 Sheets--Sheet 2,

(No Model.)

NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

HERMANN MEIER, OF PALESTINE, TEXAS.

CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters iatent no. 644,437,dated February 27, 1906. Application filed November 8, 1899- Serial. No. 736,259. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN MEIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Palestine, county of Anderson, State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car -seats, and more particularly to the connection between the arms and the back of the seat.

Oar-seats as now generally constructed are provided with back-plates fastened to the back by screws, which afford a proper connection for the striker-arms by which the back is moved or struck from one side of the seat-bottom to the other side. When it becomes necessary to clean the back or repair it or its covering in any manner, these screws have to be removed in order to effect detachment of the back from the frame, detachment being, of course, necessary to facilitate repairing. Considerable time and labor are consumed in unscrewing the back-plates on account of the number of screws to be removedand the awkwardness of removing the screws from the back-plate adjacent the carwindow.

My object is to obviate the necessity of the laborious removal of screws and detachment of the back from the back-plates and to provide an improved detachable connection between the striker-arms and the back which will permit complete removal of the back whenever desired by a very simple operation, thus saving time and labor and facilitating the work.

With this end in view the invention consists of a novel connection between the striker-arms andthe back, permitting the rapid and easy detachment and fastening of the latter, while at the same time being strong and rigid, which will be fully described hereinafter and specified in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the type of seat known as the Scarritt equipped with my improvements; Fig.2, a detail view of the improved connection, showing the back in po sition for detachment; Fig. 3, a similar view showing the relative position of the parts prior to connection or after detachment; Fig. 4, a top sectional view taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 a detail view of a modified form of lock or catch.

In the drawings the invention is shown applied to the Scarritt car-seat now in general use, particularly in the West; but it is as well adapted to any other style of car-seat as to the Scarritt, and I do not therefore limit its application to the latter type of seat.

The reversible back is shown at 1, and 2 are the striker-arms. In the Scarritt seat the pair of striker-arms at each end of the seat are pivoted to back-plates secured by screws to the ends ofthe back, and when it is desired to remove the back the screws have to be taken out. In the present invention the back-plate 3,while pivoted to the striker-arms in the usual manner at 4, is not screwed to the back, but is detachably connnected thereto. The back-plate is provided with an aperture 5, located near itsrear edge and having a contracted neck or passage 6 leading thereto.

A connector-plate 7 is employed, which is secured to the back by screws 8. This plate has clips 9 near its ends, (as many can be used as found desirable in practice,) which are adapted to embrace the rear edge of the backplate and rest againstthe striker-arm pivotbosses 4 when the back-plate and connectorplate are secured together. Projecting from the connector-plate and sunk into the back is an integral socket or cup 10, and the plate is apertured in line with the longitudinal axis of the cup at 11. A locking-bolt 12, provided with a head 13, has its stem 14 passed through the aperture 11 and into the cup, and a coilspring 15, encircling the stem and bearing against a collar thereon, keeps the bolt retracted with its head against the connector-plate. The stem is slightly smaller in diameter than the width of the opening 6, and the head is of a size to adapt it to fit easily in the aperture 5.

To connect the back to the striker-arms, they are swung to upright position over the seat-bottom, and the bolt is pulled out and its stem fitted in the neck 6, (this of course being done at both ends of the seat,) whereupon the clips will receive the back-plate, and on pressing the back down, Figs. 2 and 3, the same will become locked when the head alines with aperture 5, as the spring will cause it to operations disconnects the back.

In Fig. 5 I have illustrated a form of looking device which could be substituted for the spring-actuated bolt. Here the back-plate is provided with a semicircular notch 16, while an integral stud 17, projecting from the conhector-plate, is adapted to fit therein. Ahook 1S, pivoted to the back-plate at 19, holds the stud in the notch. A leaf-spring 20, secured at one end to the back-plate, has its free end adapted to snap into a notch 21 in the tail of the hook to lock the latter when engaged with the stud. The hook can be released from the stud by depressing the free end of the spring.

In those seats Where a roll or head-rest is employed on the back it is usual to extend the ornamental back-plates upwardly and downwardly to give a more symmetrical appearance. On such seats I prefer to provide the detached ends 22,screwed to the back,and to fit the back-plate 3 in between them. The meeting ends 23 are preferably inclined or beveled to match each other, as this construction gives a stronger bracing'to all the parts. The ends 22 are not, however, at all essential and would not be employed on many types of seats.

\Vith the present invention the back can be attached and detached with the greatest rapidity and ease and at the same time the parts are all strongly braced and connected, as the clips prevent any twisting or looseness of the back-plates.

I am aware that the invention is susceptible of many changes without departing from its spirit or impairing its efliciency, and I do not therefore limit myself to the precise constructions shown and described, but consider that I am entitled to all variations falling fairly within its scope.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a car-seat, the combination with a back and arm therefor, of a back-plate connected to the arm, clips on the back adapted to engage with the back-plate, and an independent locking device also adapted for posi tively securing said plate to the back independently of the clips.

2. In a car-seat, the combination with a back and arm therefor, 01": a back-plate secured to the arm, a connector-plate secured to the back, clips on the connector-plate adapted to engage with the back-plate and hold said plates together, and an independent locking device also adapted for securing said plates to each other independently of th clips.

3. In a car-seat, the combination with a back and arm therefor, of a back-plate secured to the arm, clips on the back which detachably embrace the edge of the back-plate and aitord a connection between said plate and the back, and a locking device on the back, independent of the clips, which also socures the plate to the back.

4. In a car-seat, the combination with a back, and arm therefor, of a back-plate secured to the arm which has a locking-bolt aperture provided with a contracted entrance leading in from the edge of the plate, a connector-plate secured to the back and provided with clips which embrace the edges of the back-plate, and a spring-actuated lockingbolt having a head adapted for reception in the aperture and a shank adapted to pass through the entrance to said aperture.

5. In a car-seat, the combination with a back and an arm therefor, of a connectorplate secured to the back, end plates secured to the back, a back-plate secured to the arm and adapted to fit in between the end plates and abut them, and means for locking the back-plate and connector-plate together.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HERMANN MEIER.

Witnesses:

FRANK E. NEWTON, G. J. STOCKMAN. 

